i-SCOPE Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a new business model, made possible thanks to the Internet and to the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In such a new model, a company delegates a part of the design, making or developing part of a product or a service, to an unorganized crowd.

i-SCOPE project is about creating services for Smart Cities, thus it is important to do crowdsourcing, not just to get more information at a lower cost and faster, but also to make the project known to the public and to be able to involve inhabitants. A city in fact, cannot be smart if its citizens aren't smart, in the meaning of using ICT technologies, and having the desire to collaborate, share and actively participate to public matters.

The challenge of a Smart City is to be able to enhance and effectively integrate the new "digital space of the city" with solutions and tools so as to achieve that civic empowerment, which is the real objective of the smart city. A reality made not only of roads, buildings and physical infrastructure, but a city connected, networked, where the measure of "smartness" is given by a different perception of quality of life, to which inhabitants contribute with their daily actions.

Many of you will think that this App provides useful services, but that does not concern you directly. Actually, our cities can be tortuous and challenging for everyone. You don't need to be a disabled person to have difficulty in moving or orientating in a city. Think of an elder person, a boy with a broken leg, a mother that push the stroller of her child, or simply pretend to walk with one of these people and immediately the perspective changes.

Mobility is an issue that concerns every one!

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a livable city for all, less hostile, where the bad experience of one can become a useful advice for another?

By downloading this App you will be able to report the architectural barriers that you find along your way, take pictures and share them, in order to create a database of barriers in the area. In a second step, and thanks to this information, will be developed an online interactive map for pedestrians. It will offer pedestrian routes, maps, directions and will give you information relating to the area, highlighting the presence of architectural barriers and the accessibility of different points of interest.

Download the Apps and help us provide effective tools to make your city a better place, quieter, open and easy to access for everyone!

To ensure that these applications are really useful and can bring an advantage to users and to municipalities that are interested in the project, we need to access a large amount of data and to work with people who are willing to share, participate, learn and inform.